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Hoxton Hall

Hoxton Hall

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One of London’s best-kept secrets, Hoxton Hall, built in 1863, is one of only a handful of surviving Victorian music halls in Britain. This book presents a history of the building and its role in the social life of a deprived but resilient area of the city, celebrating the Hall’s reopening in 2015 after a two-year, Heritage Lottery-funded, refurbishment. This landmark volume charts the Hall’s many different guises over more than a century and a half of activity, from its founding as exemplar of Victorian rational recreation to a working-class variety music hall; from headquarters of a prominent evangelical temperance movement to outpost of a Quaker East-End mission; from pioneer of 1970s community arts to today’s multipurpose centre reflecting the diversity of the neighbourhood it still serves. The wide-ranging contributions gathered here offer an invaluable lens for understanding an area of London that has experienced comprehensive social change during the lifetime of the venue. This unique history of a building brings together scholars of architectural, theatrical, musical and entertainment history, and of social and religious history, to chart the various lives of Hoxton Hall and those who have been drawn to this remarkable space.

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Keywords

  • Archaeology of buildings
  • Architectural history
  • Community arts
  • Popular entertainment
  • Quaker history
  • Rational recreation
  • Religious history
  • Social history of the East End of London
  • Temperance movements
  • theatre history
  • thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies
  • thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLM Music of film and stage
  • thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLP Popular music
  • thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBF Biography: arts and entertainment
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
  • Victorian music hall
  • Victorian values
  • Working class culture

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DOI: 10.47788/HGIF9092

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Contributors: Nicholas Till, Nadia Valman,
2 ebooks
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: 2026
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